Most painful part of birth?

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What was the most painful part of labour and birth for you?

Failed epidural and being induced with tightly closed narrow cervix and high waters. Also overcontracting

The anal fissure afterwards, and the recovery generally - I honestly think the recovery is far worse and don’t go in for the recovery from VB is necessarily easier at all. I think it depends.

DS1 the PGP from week 14 was horrendous. It was an induced labour but manageable as long as I kept on top of pain relief.

Second, another induced labour and went from four centimetres to delivered in half an hour. That was honestly the most searing, blinding pain I've ever been in. The actual pushing, no problem but wow, it just felt like one contraction constantly for 30 minutes. And on top of that having to use brain power to convince the midwife I needed to push because at her last check 20 minutes before that I was 4cm and she didn't believe me.

Contractions. Hellish.

First labour transition
Second - emotional
Third - afterbirth
Fourth - OH MY GOD THE AFTERBIRTH

The bit when you've just pushed the head out and you stop breathing and the midwife has to tell you to breathe.

I didn't have very painful labour, I suppose towards the end before starting to push.

...... And then afterwards there's the local anaesthetic injections in your fanjo to look forward too.

Blimey, notangelinajolie, I never had any minge injections. Sounds dreadful. Is it a new thing? I had a small episiotomy that was stitched, I think something cold was put on the area but deffo no injections. Didn't take long anyway.

I also didn't think pushing out the afterbirth was anything dreadful.

Having contractions in theatre and waiting for a spinal block. I was induced on the syntocinin drip - got to 10cm on gas and air and did a fair amount of pushing before I went to theatre but the 20 mins between leaving delivery (and the gas) and having the spinal in was agony.

The feeling of pressure was awful. I'd had the epidural to help with the contractions, but the pressure of him pushing towards my bottom was just unbelievable.

I had awful nausea after both, ended up vomiting and had to have injections to stop the nausea. Couldn't hold the baby for about an hour after it was born.

1. the epidural needle! (then bliss)
2. the contractions. but it was a very fast labour, 10cm within an hour so they were probably stronger than most.

Uterine rupture

Postnatal recovery- the epidural went very wrong and left me bed bound with a spinal head ache and a neck so stiff I couldn't move my head to even look at my baby. Had a catheter in for too long and got so sore and stiff from being in bed for so long. Was truly awful.

Plus because of how the epidural went wrong and because I reacted badly to the dug they use for it when they first tried it, they would only give me tiny doses of it which would then wear off every few contractions, so every 30 minutes or so until the anaesthetist was paged to come and top me up again I would feel everything. But transition contractions and crowing had nothing on that postnatal period 🙁

@bluerussian did you not need stitches?

I didn't think the anaesthetic injections were bad at all. They were more pleasant than the ones in your mouth when you have a tooth out.

crowning with ds2 (10lb) was the most terrifying thing ive ever experienced. I thought I was being broken/split in two and would surely not survive. It felt like near death
In actual fact I didnt even tear. I did go into physical shock afterwards though.

@Bluerussian it must be, they injected me at the end to bring the placenta away which was great. She told me not to push it out. I wonder if it reduces the risk of any being left behind I'm not sure. That part was much easier though. Stool softener up the bum as well at the end was new

GiveHerHellFromUs I don't remember anasthetic injections only injection to being placenta away
Maybe they dont give them if you've had an epidural?

I think of myself as pretty clued up. I did the ante natal classes. Read forums and the books midwife gave me.
But for some reason, I hadn't realised the placenta came out as a separate delivery. The horror I felt when midwife explained I had to do another delivery was indescribable. I begged her to leave it in there. Or at least let me have a cup of tea first.
But no. She insisted it had to come out. "And we'll just do the stitches while we're there".

@Yesterdayforgotten you're probably right. I didn't have an epidural. I don't even remember feeling the injection for the placenta but I definitely had it. I don't think I pushed either, I'm sure they just pulled it out. It's all a blur!

The epidural numbs that whole area doesn't it? So it makes sense that you wouldn't also need anaesthetic

GiveHerHellFromUs yes I bet that is why some ladies haven't heard of it I bet. I know the placenta injection was so helpful. I didnt have that the first time around and remember being so exhausted and then them telling me 'you're not done yet now you need to push the placenta out!'

Crowning, or as its known here, blowtorch ring of fire.

GiveHerHellFromUs Tue 11-Feb-20 06:42:20
@bluerussian did you not need stitches?
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Yes, I said I had a small episiotomy that was stitched, they put something cold on the area to numb but no injection. Didn't take long.

I learn something new on here every day :-).

I'd hate to be having a baby now - which would be a miracle, it all seems so complicated compared to 40 and a bit years ago when it was just a natural thing for someone with no associated medical problems. I wasn't at all scared but now I would be terrified in advance.

I hadn't heard of crowning being called 'ring of fire' either. I remember crowning, it was exciting because I knew I was on the last lap. Just a few more grunts and groans and out.